Five of the six men arrested under Pakistan’s tough blasphemy law for throwing a Sikh man’s turban to the ground during a scuffle in Punjab Province have been granted bail after police declared them “innocent”.
The police also warned Mahinder Paal Singh against raising the matter before the top authorities as a blasphemy case could also be registered against him.
A civil judge of Chichawatni, some 300 kilometres from lahore, yesterday granted to bail Rashid Gujjar, Baqir Ali, Faiz Alam, Shakeel and Snawal in the blasphemy case.
“During a day in police custody we interrogated the suspects but did not find that they had committed blasphemy. It was just a brawl and during the fight Singh’s turban fell to the ground,” Khaizer Hayat, Chichawatni city police in-charge, said.